RJ Andrews

@infowetrust.com

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Obsessed with data graphics. I design high‑stakes charts. Founder, Visionary Press • CHARTOGRAPHY weekly Talks • workshops • consulting → infowetrust.com

“We probably could have figured this out sooner if we just asked how much money machines spend on discretionary goods. (Hint: it’s zero.)” … “Swaths of companies built on monetizing friction for humans disintegrated.” … “Over the past fifty years, the U.S. economy built a giant rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations: things take time, patience runs out, brand familiarity substitutes for diligence, and most people are willing to accept a bad price to avoid more clicks. Trillions of dollars of enterprise value depended on those constraints persisting.” … “Turns out that a lot of what people called relationships was simply friction with a friendly face.” … “The businesses and jobs that AI was chewing up were not tangential to the US economy, they were the US economy.” … “A daisy chain of correlated bets on white collar productivity growth” … “The federal government’s revenue base is essentially a tax on human time." … “The Intelligence Premium Unwind” … “The canary is still alive.”